arXiv AI By Haoyang Le, Shengxuan Wang, Mohan Chen, Shuo Feng

Topology-Driven Anti-Entanglement Control for Soft Robots

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The paper introduces a topology-driven Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (TD-MARL) framework designed to coordinate soft robots in precision manufacturing tasks, specifically to prevent entanglement during unwinding operations in highly constrained environments. By employing centralized learning with a shared topological state, the approach improves observability and training stability, while distributed execution reduces communication demands and enhances system reliability. Simulation results demonstrate that TD-MARL outperforms current deep reinforcement learning methods in convergence speed and anti-winding effectiveness.

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Search-Aided Joint Agent-Environment Reinforcement Learning for Robust Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding with Rotations

arXiv:2608. 05588v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Lifelong Multi-Agent Path Finding (LMAPF) requires repeatedly planning collision-free paths for agents that continuously receive new goals upon reaching their current ones.

By He Jiang, Jingtian Yan, Yulun Zhang, Yimin Tang, Tanishq Duhan, Rishi Veerapaneni, Guillaume Sartoretti, Jiaoyang Li